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QTJOTIDIANARY.<br />
SPENCER Vnlg- Proph. 53 Common and quotidian thoughts<br />
are beneath the grace of a Verse, a 1763 SHENSTONE<br />
Economy i. 149 To scorn quotidian scenes, to spurn the<br />
bliss Of vulgar minds. 1816 W. TAYLOR in Monthly Mag.<br />
XLII. 423 This (adds Wieland) is very quotidian scepticism.<br />
1837 CARLYLE J*'r. Rev. III. n. viii, Pastry-cooks, coffeesellers,<br />
milkmen sing out their trivial quotidian cries.<br />
B. sb. 1, A quotidian fever or ague.<br />
1x1400 Stockh. Medical MS. ii. 50 in Anglia XVIII. 309<br />
pat coueryth te cotidyan mythilyke. c 1400 Rom. Rose<br />
2401 Cotidien, ne quarteyne, It is not so ful of peyne. c 1491<br />
Chast. Goddes Chyld. 21 The fyrst feuere is callid a cotydian.<br />
1547 BOORDE Brev, Health cxxxvii. sob, In Englyshe<br />
it is named a quotidiane the which doth infest a man every<br />
daye. 1663 BOYLE Use/. Exp. Nat. Philos. 11. v. ix. 211,<br />
I myself was strangely cured of a violent quotidian, irja<br />
ARBUTHNOT^?W/ ofDiet 324 Tertians sornetimes redouble<br />
their Paroxysms so as to appear like Quotidians. 1823-34<br />
Good's Stud. Med. (ed. 4) 1. 607 The quotidian has a longer<br />
interval than the tertian.<br />
fis* 1430-40 LYDG. Bochas ix. xxxviii. (1554) 217 Trusting<br />
..your liberal largesse Of thys quotidian shall releuen me.<br />
quotiens}) It. quoziente^ Sp. quociente^\<br />
1. Math. The result obtained by dividing one<br />
arithmetical or algebraic quantity by another ; the<br />
number of times one number is contained in another<br />
as ascertained by division.<br />
14.. Mann.
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